Tol-e Pirتل پیر
Location: Situated in the Dasht-e Rostam plain, southern Iran, Fars Province.
30°16’02.7″N 51°29’58.7″E
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History and description
Tol-e Pir is a long mound overlaying a natural hill or outcrop. It measures 220 x 120 m with a height of 5 m above the surrounding area. There are emplacements in bedrock possibly used for grinding. The surface ceramics suggest a date in the Sasanian/Islamic period.
Archaeological Exploration
Tol-e Pir was visited and recorded by a joint team of archaeologists from Sydney University and the Iranian Center for Archaeological Research led by Dan Potts and Kourosh Roustaei in 2005.
Bibliography
Potts, D. T. and K. Roustaei, The Mamasani Archaeological Project stage one: a report on the first two seasons of the ICAR-University of Sydney expedition to the Mamasani district, Fars province, Iran, 1st edition, Tehran, 2006, p. 164.
